The Bliss of Not Owning Nothing

Before God created man, he prepared for him a world full of beautiful things for his sustenance and delight. Everything God created was for the welfare of man, but it was indispensable that everything was subordinate to him. Genesis simply calls them "things." They were created for their use and they should always be external to him. There in the depth of the heart of man have a place occupied solely by God; outside, the thousand gifts could be with God I had blessed.

But sin introduced complications, and made the gifts of God become instruments harmful to the soul. Our misfortunes began when God was forced out of his sanctuary, and the "things" took their place. That is why we have no peace, because we have taken God from the throne of our heart, and tenacious and aggressive usurpers fight for the first place

This is not a simple metaphor, but the analysis of our true spiritual condition. Within the human heart there is a root of bad nature that urges you to possess more, and always plus. Greed "things" with fierce and unbridled passion. The possessive pronouns "my" and "mine" They seem innocent in print, but they are of terrible significance in life. They express, better than a thousand volumes of theology, which is the true nature of man. Are the verbal symptoms of the deepest human disease. Material things have thrown roots so deep in our hearts that we do not want to tear them out for fear of dying. Things" they have become indispensable to us, which should never have happened. The gifts of God have
come to occupy the place of God and this has disrupted the whole order of nature. Our Lord Jesus Christ was referring to the tyranny of things when I said to his disciples, "If anyone wants come after me, deny yourself, and take up your cross, and follow me. Because anyone who wants save his life, he will lose it, and whoever wants to lose his life for my sake, will find it

Dividing into fragments this truth, in order to understand it better, we see that there is of us an enemy whose presence we tolerate with grave danger. Jesus called it "life" or "our life," or as we would say, our own being, whose main characteristic is the desire to own This is demonstrated by the words "profit" and "profit." Allow this enemy live, end at the end with everything. Instead, repudiate him, and with him repudiate the world of things, will end result in eternal life with Christ. It is also suggested which is the only way to end this enemy: through the Cross. "Take your cross every day, and follow me."The best way to acquire greater knowledge of God is by going through shady valleys of sadness and loneliness. The blessed who possess the kingdom are those who have repudiated everything external, and they have uprooted from the heart all desire to possess things. These are the true "poor in spirit!" In their inner life they have become like beggars who wandered the streets of Jerusalem. That is the meaning of the word "poor" in lips of Christ. These blessed poor have ceased to be slaves to the tyranny of things. Han broken the yoke of the oppressor, finding liberation, not by means of struggles, but by means of surrender. Having no desire to possess anything, 'they come to possess everything. "Of them is the kingdom of the Heavens!'

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